Saffron did not yield in Ternopil region this year.

In Ternopil region, Vitaliy Yasenchuk has been growing saffron crocus for 6 years, the dried stigmas of which are considered the most expensive spice. The entrepreneur lives in the village of Rydoduby in Chortkiv district, last year he and his family harvested the saffron crop, but this year the saffron did not bloom, writes Suspilne.Ternopil. Vitaliy Yasenchuk said that he started growing saffron (crocuses) because he was interested in this plant and decided to try something new. He started with 4 hundredths of a garden, and now the area has been expanded to 13 hundredths. "Saffron crocus, which is grown for the purpose of obtaining spices, blooms in the fall. We expected it to be around the second half of October. But there were frosts in September, which may have affected it. But it should also be remembered that saffron is planted with bulbs and it blooms in the third year from planting. In the best case, it blooms in the second year, but this is very unlikely. That is, it may ...